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  2. Doug Shanks - Wikipedia

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    Shanks had wanted to become the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, since he was a teenager. [9] Before 1977, he served as the Jackson director of public relations. [10] He was the city commissioner of Jackson, Mississippi from 1973 to 1977, under mayor Russell C. Davis.

  3. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland - Wikipedia

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    Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]

  4. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...

  5. List of people executed in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Beach: Virginia Goebel 32 Joseph John Savino III: White 37 M July 17, 1996 Bedford: Thomas McWaters 33 Ronald B. Bennett: Black 42 M November 21, 1996 Chesterfield: Anne Keller Vaden 34 Gregory Warren Beaver: White 30 M December 4, 1996 Prince George: State Trooper Leo Whitt 35 Larry Allen Stout: Black 33 M December 10, 1996 Staunton ...

  6. Allen C. Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Allen Cavett Thompson (November 6, 1906 – October 18, 1980) [1] was an American politician in the state of Mississippi. Affiliated with the Democratic Party, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.

  7. The Clarion-Ledger - Wikipedia

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    Historically, both newspapers, The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, were openly and unashamedly racist, supporting white supremacy. In 1890, after Mississippi Democrats adopted a new state constitution designed to disenfranchise black voters by making voter registration and voting more difficult, The Clarion-Ledger applauded the move, stating:

  8. D. Michael Hurst Jr. - Wikipedia

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    In May 2019, the Jackson, Mississippi, city council awarded a resolution to Hurst due to Hurst's role in apprehending the murderer of Brittany Green, who was shot to death at a gas station. [ 5 ] In August 2019, Hurst announced immigration raids in Mississippi which he said were "the largest single state immigration enforcement operation in our ...

  9. Carla Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) [1] is a former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the November 29, 2006 slayings of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. [2]